Inquirer: Big Rendell Allies Supporting Allegheny Co Exec as Next Governor

[JPZenger]

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/11541381.html

The above is a link to an article in today's Phila. Inquirer. It says that some of the top backers of Ed Rendell are supporting Dan Octavo as the next Governor of PA. Rendell cannot run again because of term limits. The article describes how Octavo is admired for having worked hard to address a financial crisis that the County faced when he came into office.

The article also describes other likely candidates, including Bob Mellow, a legislator from Lackawanna County, and Don Cunningham, Lehigh County Executive. The article also describes likely Republican candidates, including the State Attorney General.

[Yellow Horse]

1. The name's Onorato and he's an arrogant piece of crap.

I'd go for nearly ANY republican before DanO -- or I should say DINO because that's what he is.

Get somebody ANYbody to run instead, PLEASE Democrats!

[Allenberg]

2. Yeah

I'm not a big fan of Onorato.

[philly_bob]

3. Official biography of Oranato

http://www.alleghenycounty.us/welcome/onorato.aspx

Let's keep an eye on him. Any other opinions?

[demodonkey]

4. He loves touchscreen voting machines and hates Voter-Verified Paper Ballots!

Dan Onorato is NO friend of accurate, transparent voting. He has stated to our activists in Allegheny County that he "doesn't like" optical scan, and has blocked all efforts in PA's second largest county to purchase optical scan systems which provide auditable, recountable voter-verified paper ballots.

If you read on into the story, please note that "prominent Rendell financial backer" Mark Aronchick is the Philadelphia lawyer who (at PA taxpayer expense) fought Chuck Pascal in Kuznik v. Westmoreland and the Voter Action team in Taylor v. Onorato, both citizen-initiated lawsuits to fight paperless electronic voting in Pennsylvania.

The fact that the paper ballot-hating Dan Onorato is linking up with the Danaher-loving Philadelphia contingent of the Democratic Party to nail down the next gubernatorial nomination has frightening implications for election integrity in Pennsylvania.

[Fabio]

5. I think he is great